Blub blub blub, I hope the boiler was cool when the water came up.

As the railroads spread around the world the were sometimes differences it track width but most of the rolling stock looked pretty much alike. The Locomotives, however, being so big and heavy tended to be locally made which led to a different look.

and

Of course England had dozens of different designs.

Thomas, Percy, Henry,...

Variety abounds...

Everyone gets into the act...

And we continue...

More variation...

Around the world...

Can't forget...

And last but not least...

That canal tug is a pretty specific design. I assume it's cogged to get up the lock inclines.

Also, since they're small, the cog may help it (traction-wise) tug those ginormous ships and boats.

That was unexpected.


Here's another unexpected mashup:

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The idea of a Navy train made me wonder whether something like this existed. Apparently it does.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...SRR_FBQ_01.jpg

But that CG Railway is private enterprise moving trains between North and South America. But damn you, you got me curious too. :haha:

Yes the US Navy has trains, with yellow engines and gray rolling stock. The largest is in Crane, IN, at the Navel Surface Warfare Center there.
There are smaller ones around the country, at least one in NJ and a couple in CA, I could find. The locomotives are mostly electric or diesel/electric, so don’t toot-toot like Popeye. They are all involved with moving things that go boom. Moving munitions from inland stores to warships in port, or around various munitions storage and testing facilities.

British railroads were the standard...

So apparently speed limits are sometimes important.

Welcome to the bloody third world.












*Joe Strummer

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No 5820 leaves Oakworth station on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway in West Yorkshire.

This is a rather unusual sight as most heritage lines run the old work horses from the heyday of British steam.

Keighley and Worth Valley Railway.

Long strange trip...

You can't stand in the way of progress and in 1922/23 the Metropolitan-Vickers electric loco was introduced.

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Dad commuted into London in the late fifties to early sixties during the last days of steam and remembers these machines.
Trains from Aylesbury and points north would pause to uncouple the steam engine at Rickmansworth and continue, electric hauled, to Baker Street and beyond.
Out of the twenty built two remain. One is in the London Transport museum and another, Sarah Siddons, is preserved in running order for special occasions, enthusiast trips, etc.



As a bonus, there's a steam loco on the other end.

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Drivers Stephen and Chris prepare for the first day of operations after the winter closure at the Kirklees Light Railway in West Yorkshire.

First wreck of a streamliner...

Kellogg lumber company...

I wonder how effective those skis at the front are for steering that massive thing. I'd imagine skid steering would work better.

Snek...

(Arguably, no pipeline? OK, we'll just carry this stuff down the rocky hillside, next to the curves of the river...)

...and excess rolling stock is parked all over the country including the Adirondacks and on a couple rail lines near here. On the same issue, they're compressing gas and trucking it over the road into NYS because the pipelines are being held up. I'm not a big fossil fuel guy but a rational distribution plan would be preferable.

We haul fuel.

Why?

Because we need a lot of fuel.

Why?

Because we haul a lot of fuel.

Wh--wait. Whut?

Canada...

Kinda Vader-y...

This Day In Choo Choo History
 

April 26, 1958

The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue,

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one of the first major electric trains in the U.S., made its final run.

That's a Steam Engine.

Beautiful machine.

Uh, that's Bluetiful. :haha:

His last run...

I never thought of that dep't: In 1857, before time zones were invented, every town had its own time.

(Not in Britain, where a more civilized nation had Greenwich posting an agreed-upon time for everyone by 1852...)

It was the railroads that forced a common time to happen. Suddenly there was a need for everyone to understand the same time. The agreed-upon time used to be called "Railroad Time". But people agreed to call it Standard Time. And we still do.

http://cellar.org/2017/1857timezones.jpg

It's interesting which are the principle cities in the US, Toronto's inclusion implies a pretty porous border. With the trains running they probably didn't mess around with border checks.

Hell, in my time, driving through the border meant a 30 second stop to hear welcome to Canada.

When we crossed about a hundred years ago, the guy said "Ya got any guns, eh?"

We said "Uhh--"

He said "Welcome to Canadia, eh."

It wasn't that strict crossing back.

Ever thought that you are deserving of a higher station in life?
For a mere £425,000* (minimum!) you can be the proud owner of Dent Station House high in the Pennines in Cumbria.

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Flying Scotsman

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Should you become jaded by the iron horse, then thrill to the sight and sound of a low flying RAF jet.

*$568,000.

Link.

Pretty enough.

Pay for it by selling trinkets to tourists.

It might be largely self-financing, assuming you don't want to live there yourself.

This from yesterday's Sunday Times:

Link It's behind a paywall but there might be free access for a limited number of articles, not sure.

For more context, have a look at these two posts courtesy of limey.

Settle to Carlisle videos.

Dent Station

If ya buy this place, do ya gotta deal with the ten trains a day stopping there?

Pass.

No, it's a private dwelling fenced off from the working part of the station itself.
Reading between the lines, in a manner of speaking, the holiday rental side of it probably appeals to steam railway enthusiasts so it will never be a railway free zone.

Here's someone else who is reading between the lines.

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On the subject of railway station buildings converted to houses, see Posts 127 to 136 of this thread. (Little Kimble)

Slip Coach from 1858 to 1960...

Thanks, Bruce. I'd never heard of that operation before.
It doesn't look a particularly safe procedure on the face of it!

I noted the reference to a 'Warship Class' diesel as the train left Paddington.
Some years ago, a mate of mine noticed a particularly grubby diesel loco at Euston with the name 'Scharnhorst' tastefully inscribed in the grime.

I imagine when they started in 1858 without wireless communications and with more primitive equipment, everyone had to be on their toes. Of course back then the riders probably accepted more jostling than they would today.

I've just mentioned this video to Dad.
He remembers the use of slip coaches at Princes Risborough which is on the line shown and about twenty miles SE of Bicester.

Preparing lunch, hence brevity. :)

That is very cool. It seems like an update could be effective again.

The girls are in England btw.

North Yorkshire Moors Railway?